Peter holds a B. Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. He was formerly a program director working on illegal wildlife trade with Global Survival Network and a senior investigator for the Environmental Investigation Agency. He specialized in conducting on-site investigations globally and campaigning against the trade in wild birds for pets and consumption of endangered species in traditional Chinese medicine, such as bear gallbladder, rhino horn and tiger bone. In 1996 working across Asia he created the Active Conservation Awareness Program, the first international program aimed at reducing demand for endangered species products. The program used sophisticated advertising techniques, donated airtime and celebrity spokespeople with the message "when the buying stops, the killing can, too." He received an Associate Laureate of the Rolex Award for Enterprise for this work. The program now reaches up to 1 billion people a week with over 80 celebrity ambassadors, like Jackie Chan and Yao Ming. Recent  surveys indicate 55% of people in Beijing remembered the campaign with 82% saying they stopped eating shark fin soup. He recently appeared in CNN's Planet in Peril.

Peter now serves as Executive Director of WildAid. He also created the Shark Conservation and Galapagos Forever Programs.

Tod Bensen is a venture capitalist who has spent most of his adult life in London, England and now lives in Woodside, California.  After graduating from Dartmouth College he worked on Wall Street for two years before moving to the UK where he worked at Cazenove & Co., the UK's leading investment bank, for 20 years.  After building the company's Equity Capital Markets practice, where he led hundreds of IPOs for companies around the world, he set up Cazenove Private Equity.  As founder and CEO of this $450 million fund, he built one of Europe's leading venture capital businesses.  In 2007 he handed over the management of this business and took a sabbatical where he returned to the US and focused on various ocean conservation projects.  During the course of this he became aware of WildAid and after working with them on various projects agreed to join the board in 2008.  He was influenced by the similarities between WildAid's management talent, ambition and achievements and those of the world's best venture capital backed companies.

Tracey Durning is the founder of 49 Prince Street, a small but powerful collective of impact strategists and implementers focusing exclusively on individuals and organizations that have the power to transform crucial pieces of our shared world for the better. 49 builds and expands strong, authentic projects, campaigns and brands that do what they say they will, ultimately building supportive and sustaining communities for the common good.  She is currently developing Oceans 2020 with Oak Foundation, a global funders Collaborative aimed at tackling some of the most critical issues facing our oceans today, as well as advising a handful of philanthropists, ngo’s and celebrities about effective philanthropy, collaboration-building and crafting high-impact campaigns. Prior to that she helped develop a new social enterprise called Crowdrise, modeled after the success of Edward Norton's Maasai Marathon Campaign which she co-ran in 2009, raising $1.2 million (predominantly in micro-donations) in just eight weeks. A former journalist and documentary filmmaker, her journey into philanthropy began in 2005 with a trek through Africa with Dr Jeffrey Sachs of Millennium Promise, documenting the start of that initiative to end extreme poverty. She used the film and a series of small salons to align the organization with top philanthropists, celebrities and to attract national media. She is still a filmmaker, having executive produced the feature film Freedom Writers starring Hilary Swank, and is currently producing Holler with Kristin Hahn and Jennifer Aniston. She sits on the board of directors of Wild Aid and Millennium Promise.

Beverly Spector worked for 30 years in her family business, Britex Fabrics, Union Square, San Francisco. As a teenager, she made her first charitable contribution to Greenpeace, which is still part of her continuing commitment to help preserve the environment. Bev has traveled to see various endangered species projects to learn more about work that is funded by organizations that she supports. She has always been an avid environmental advocate and recently joined the board of Wildaid because of her belief in its unique and effective approach. She hopes to utilize her passion for environmental issues and concerns, as a board member, by helping to further the significant accomplishments already achieved by Wildaid.